Saturday, April 25, 2015

KELLY DISABLES SOME ANNOYING HONKS & BELLS ON THE LIBBYGATOR

Had to wait for the garden hose to thaw out this morning before I could tackle the job of washing the Wrangler. Way too cold to be washing a vehicle but I just wanted to get the Wrangler clean-up over & done with. See what a bit of Saturday morning sunshine can do for a fella.Later in the day I figured I'd work on Libby's aggravating bells & security locks annoyance so headed for the shed to get my hammer & a crowbar. In the meantime Kelly had been reading the Jeep Liberty's manual & came out & solved all the locks & bell’s problems. No more lights blinking & horn honking when the Fob is used to lock or unlock the Jeep. She also disabled the aggravating seat belt bell. I'm not in the habit of strapping on a seat belt when I'm puttering around picking up pine needles with our utility trailer etc. She also figured out how to stop the Jeep from getting itself in a big panic & locking itself up every time it starts rolling down the road or every time we simply exit the vehicle. Anyway that’s about it for me tonight due to the fact my writing mind isn't cooperating with me again so we'll see what tomorrow brings.GROANER'S CORNER:(( While visiting my son on his Army base, I chatted with a colleague of his. "What rank are you?" I asked. "I'm relieved to say that I've just been promoted from captain to major." "Relieved? Why?" "Because," he replied, "my last name is Hook."

First, we enjoyed meeting y'all at the Visitors Center in Blanding, UT last month. Thank you and Kelly for being so gracious. We also have a Jeep Liberty and occasionally it will lock itself with our keys inside the Jeep. Jeeps says it can't happen, but we had witnesses. Just a heads up.

AL'S CAMERA EQUIPMENT

A sometimes asked question readers have about my blog is what kind of a camera do I use. Well I have 8 of them and use them all. Five Nikon DSLR's, two quality Sony point and shoots plus one older Canon point and shoot.

'UPDATE':: July 2017 Thanks to a very generous blog reader I have been able to update my Nikon camera equipment and supplement my camera gear with a couple additional fine Sony cameras as well.I now have a 'donated' Nikon D7200 sporting my new Nikkor 18-300 3.5 zoom lens. Also have picked up a new Nikkor 1.8 primary 35mm lens. In addition I also now have a Sony RX100-3 camera as well as a Sony Exmore Cybershot. I have given my Canon Powershot point and shoot camera to a neighbor.

- In early 2017 I replaced my Nikon D-90 camera with a new D-3400 after the 'auto focus' feature on my aging D-90 quit working. The Nikon D-90 had been my work horse camera sporting a Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 lens. I used this camera for most of my landscapes and I now have it set up for night photography where 'auto focus' is not necessary.

-My older faithful and favorite Nikon D-40 finally packed it in during the summer of 2015 and I replaced it with a new Nikon D-3100.

- Previous to my Nikon D-90, most of my photos were taken with my old faithful Nikon D-50 from 2006 to early 2011 whereupon the D-50 suffered a rather gruesome death when it fell off a table onto a cement porch in southeastern Arizona. The 70-300mm lens on the camera survived the fall but the D-50 did not. My Nikkor lenses are interchangable between the D-90 the D-3100 and the D-3400.